SOURCE: '남양유업 창업주 외손녀' 황하나, 지인 마약 투약 혐의로 구속 재판
Hwang Hana (37), the granddaughter of the founder of Namyang Dairy Products, has been sent to trial under detention on charges of administering methamphetamine to acquaintances.
According to legal sources on the 20th, the Anyang Branch of the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office has indicted Hwang Hana on charges of violating the Narcotics Control Act. She is accused of injecting methamphetamine into two acquaintances at an apartment in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, in July 2023.
Prosecutors determined that Hwang Hana actively encouraged her accomplices to use drugs and personally administered the injections. They specifically noted that she fled to Thailand the very next day after police conducted a search and seizure against one of her accomplices.
Investigations further revealed that Hwang Hana illegally entered Cambodia from Thailand despite knowing that her passport had been invalidated and that she was under an Interpol Red Notice. At the end of last year, she expressed her intention to turn herself in and was arrested aboard a Korean aircraft at Phnom Penh International Airport.
At the time of her arrest, Hwang Hana denied the charges, claiming she was only present at the scene and did not engage in drug use. However, prosecutors concluded that she had directly administered the drugs based on statements from accomplices and witnesses, as well as recorded phone call evidence.
Furthermore, prosecutors also confirmed that while on the run overseas, Hwang Hana contacted her accomplices and attempted to threaten or persuade them into giving statements that favor her. As a result, some of the statements submitted by her defense were deemed false.
Regarding this case, one accomplice received a suspended prison sentence, while another received a suspension of indictment.
Hwang Hana was previously indicted for using methamphetamine multiple times at her home in Seoul in 2015. In 2019, she received a sentence of 1 year in prison, suspended for 2 years. However, she used drugs again during that probation period and was sentenced to 1 year and 8 months in prison. She was released in 2022.
Hwang Hana is also known as the granddaughter of the founder of Namyang Dairy Products and as the ex-girlfriend of singer and actor Park Yoochun.
